Monday 27 August 2007

Sarah Burke is a skier of some description whose training base is in Whistler, just north of Vancity... so ye.. there's justification for me to post about her, skiing.. thats kind of a sport.. (update: ok she is actually class, pardon my sarcasm)more pics on FHM online

Sunday 26 August 2007

I now firmly believe that Couture is actually some kind of malevolent fighting machine... but with a heart of gold. He beat up Gonzaga pretty damn badly the other night, check out Gabriel's new multi-piece nose (pictured). GSP beat that cocky bollocks Koschek and Huerta beat Crane in the fights that mattered (imo).

Saturday 25 August 2007

It's all over the internet already but those who don't know Michael Vick has pleaded guilty to bankrolling the dog fighting that took place in his gaff. Although he has also declared that he did not personally place any bets himself... which is kinda irrevalent considering he funded the whole thing. So being responsible for the killing and maiming of dogs as well as running an illegal gambling ring in his house could land him.... (drum rrrrrrol please) 1 year in prison... or so I've heard.

That's a bit disconcerting innit? Question 1: Why didn't Eddie put out our best team? I know we still have another game to play but surely it would make more sense to get the first team as much playing time as possible seeing as they haven't been together in a test match environment since the Six Nations. Question 2: Why is Tommy Bowe still even in consideration for a berth on this Irish squad? His mere presence on the field of play brings Irish playing standards.

In a similar fashion to the fact the England annihilated what turned out to be pretty much the Welsh third team the Scots have pulled a fast one on the Irish second squad so its not that bad to be honest. In fact if the names O'Driscoll and O'Connell were omitted from that team list I wouldn't have given this result a second glance. The fact that it was Scotland though, granted the kilted ones were at home but still, losing to Scotland... really?

Ireland second warm-up game will be against those filthy Italian swine on the 24th of August up in the occupied six counties at Ravenhill. What could possibly go wrong...

Wednesday 8 August 2007

Neemia Tialata gained a degree of infamy for an apparent attempt at strangling New Zealand captain Richie McCaw during a Super 14 game between McCaw's Crusaders and Tialata's Hurricanes. Well it would appear that karma has caught up with the would be Long Island Strangler as he was TKFO recently in a Air New Zealand Cup game, watch the front of the lineout in the clip below

Monday 6 August 2007

Right... emmm how exactly did this happen? Well aside from being at home if you look at the Welsh team I think you'll realise that the majority of their quality players were left to tend to their sheep in the valleys last weekend. In fact in many cases Wales were playing their third choice players; Cooper at 9, Sweeney at 10 and who the Christ is Will James?

Now bearing the fact that it was the Welsh third team essentially that made the journey to 'Fortress' Twickers the Eng-u-lish fielded pretty much their number one squad. Not to take anything away from England though, I mean for a team that usually struggles to create any try scoring drives netting nine is some achievement. But then again on closer inspection 5 of those nine trys were nabbed by the pack, including four for Nick Easter.

So conclusion to be made from this debacle of a rugby match are: 1) Nothing near a full-strength Welsh 'B' team were playing, 2) It was probably the best England had on display, 3) England had home field advantage, 4) The Poms obviously played their dated smash-it-up-the-middle rugby against a vastly inferior Welsh pack, 5) So they still haven't addressed their crippling lack of any kind of back line threat or creativity BUT 6) Since it was a record defeat of the Welsh expect the English press to hail these conquering heroes as capable of defending the world cup, 7) Be prepared to laugh when that happens

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I, ze writer of this semi-comprehensible babble am James S. McDermott (BA). A recent graduate of the UCDD in Dublin, Ireland I will be enrolling in an MA in Ancient History and Classics at the University of Bristol next October. I will try to update this as much as possible but I'm not promising anything